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The weight of research internationalization indicators Ülle Must Estonian Research Council ulle.must@etag.ee. SCIENTOMETRICS Status and Prospects for development Moscow , 10-12 October 2013. Visualizing Friendships.
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The weight of research internationalization indicatorsÜlle MustEstonian ResearchCouncilulle.must@etag.ee SCIENTOMETRICS Status and Prospects for development Moscow, 10-12 October 2013
Visualizing Friendships By Paul Butler, 13 December 2010http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919
Changingpublication and collaborationpattern Publisheddocuments 1996-2012 (inthousands) Research collaboration: % of documents with more than one country SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank.Retrieved October 09, 2013, from http://www.scimagojr.com
King, C. Multiauthor Papers: Onward and Upward. Retrieved July 1, 2013 from: http://sciencewatch.com/articles/multiauthor-papers-onward-and-upward
Data and methods Peer Review survey • General information (field, country of affiliation, citizenship, gender, the profile as researcher); • Experience in the Peer Review process (as applicant or reviewer); • S&T indicators; • Criticismof Peer Review; • The future of the peer review system. • Respondents belong to 79 countries by nationality; their places of affiliation were in 66 countries. Among respondents, 1337 were men and 652 were women, 125 did not specify their gender. By academic position, postdoctoral research fellows (643) and full professors (422) constituted the largest share of respondents, followed by lecturers/assistant professors (325), associated professors (323). The largest numbers of respondents belong to natural sciences (1096).
Availability of data • Validity and reliability • Fittogoal • Stabilityand controllability • Economicefficiency • Availability and the cost of processing the raw data • Theusequality • The uniqueness and clarity of interpretation • The ability to influence the behavior and process
Conclusions • Thechoiceof indicatorsdepend on the desired goal; • The range of indicators is broad, and the choice of individual indicators should meet certain criteria; • Variousindicators should be weighted differently in different fields, at different career stages; • Indicators have to be fit‐for‐purpose, appropriate and verifiable.